266. Wild Results in Speed Endurance Studies, How to Use Bloodwork, On's Trail Supershoe, Tour de France Thoughts, and Strength Work!

Some Work, All Play

David Roche and Megan Roche

Sports, Running

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

We buzzed over our favorite study tables of all time before this great episode! The main science topic was a review of "speed endurance" studies showing rapid progress across all populations and protocols.

That replicability is almost unheard of in sports science, and it's something that every athlete should harness in their training. Spoiler alert: do your strides!

And this one was full of amazing topics! Other topics: how to use bloodwork (and why everyone should know what's going on under the hood), our initial review of On's trail supershoe, the expanding use of computational models in shoe development, a wild study on how birth ratio changes for endurance athletes, plus a Q+A on what we're looking for in the Tour de France, hypotheticals about cyclists becoming runners, heart rate and stress, strength training for aging athletes, pregnancy warnings on gels and other nutritional supplements, car saunas, and how to think about long-term building.

May the study tables, bloodwork, and book club choices be ever in your favor. We love you all!

-David and Megan

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0:00.0	Woo. Welcome to the Some Work All Play podcast. We are so happy to do with you today. Happy Tuesday. It's
0:05.6	Tuesday. And we got Book Club popping over here on this Tuesday. Book Club is popping off. Yeah.
0:11.3	So last week I did like an entire reevaluation of my mindfulness practices. And you overhauled
0:18.2	everything. And you know what the main way that I'm going to do it is?
0:21.2	How?
0:21.5	The Hunger Games.
0:23.1	You ordered us so you're like, I don't want to use my phone anymore.
0:26.0	And kudos to you.
0:27.0	You've actually, like, stopped using your phone a lot.
0:29.1	It's great.
0:29.8	And so you ordered us the new Hunger Games.
0:32.2	It's like a prequel to the Hunger Games that we read in college.
0:35.6	And it's good. But I found you, you just took the book
0:38.9	into the bathroom with you for like 45 seconds to 90 seconds and are reading it at a time, like,
0:43.5	you know, when you typically be using yourself and I'm like, this is great. The main purpose
0:47.1	of the cell phone is to get me through Balmuthers. And so now I have Suzanne Collins, the author
0:51.6	of Hunger Games. Yeah, well, the reason that that's the first book in our book club. We're both reading. We both got copies is I went to start with something
0:57.9	that was light. And also, I'm not in the Hunger Games. That's really good. That makes me feel good.
1:03.8	Actually, we had the reflection. There's a lot of violence in here for kind of like a teen book. Yeah. There's a lot going on. The teens nowadays, they've got a lot. So we're going to go through so many books. We'll probably talk about a lot of them on the podcast.
1:14.1	Hunger Games will not be talked about on the podcast. That's more of just a way to grease the wheels. Get it going.
1:19.4	I think next, we're going to do something that's on like the founding and development of Facebook and those types of things. That's my next choice.
1:27.7	Oh, you already have a book lined up? Oh, yeah. I haven't heard of that one.
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